HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080863270
Bassin de Río Lacantún
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 3 administrative regions : Benemérito de las Américas, Marqués de Comillas, Ocosingo
Sub-basin area
2 567,9km²
Upstream area
17 979,5km²
Discharge
931,63m³/s
Mean elev.
370m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 3 basins
- Bassin de Río Lacantún2010 km²
- Bassin de Río Lacantún1467 km²
- Bassin de Río San Carlos1452 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1997.0 km²78.0% of basin
- 486.7 km²19.0% of basin
- 75.5 km²3.0% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Montes Azules
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
804.98 km² overlap
Montes Azules
IUCN VIBiosphere Reserve
804.98 km² overlap
Lacan-Tun
IUCN VIBiosphere Reserve
553.07 km² overlap
Bonampak
IUCN IIINatural Monument
42.84 km² overlap
Reserva Las Guacamayas
IUCN VIVoluntary Conservation Area
3.46 km² overlap
Chan-Kin
IUCN VIFlora and Fauna Protection Area
2.51 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 864 distinct species · 93 200 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 26 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Río Lacantún : 20 espèces reliées par 25 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,6°C
Annual rain
2 420mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,30
Runoff
1 230mm/an
PET
1 669mm
AET
1 403mm
Mean slope
3,8°
Water table
131cm
Forest
81%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
54%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)